Burial
According to a 1994 book by the English Egyptologist Aidan Dodson, King Harsiese:
- "was buried in a tomb within the temenos at Medinet Habu, in the trough of a granite coffin (JE 60137) made for Ramesses II's sister, Henutmire, (and) closed with a hawk-Headed lid. When cleared, four canopic jars were found....No trace of any lids have survived, suggesting that such items may have been of wood,"(p.92).
Dodson notes that Harsiese's coffin is similar in style to the Hawk Headed, silver coffin of Shoshenq II, and to the surviving – "traces of the gilded coffin and cartonnage of Osorkon II," (pp. 88–89).
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